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" A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced. "

" An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country. "

First Amendment

" As I get older, I just prefer to knit. "

" As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last. "

" Every character I do is based on someone I know. "

" Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.' "

" I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America. "

" I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying. "

" I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much. "

" I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine. "

" I hate clowns. "

" I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers. "

" I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating. "

" I just want to do good work. "

" I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else. "

" I like going to France, because no one knows who I am. "

" I like infomercials. "

" I love documentaries, I like observing real people. "

" I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin. "

" I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that. "

" I'm as famous as I want to be. "

" I'm fascinated by Bollywood. "

" I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person. "

" I'm not a film snob. "

" I'm sick of environmentalism. "

Environmentalism

" I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes. "

" I'm usually put off by performers when they get political. "

" I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. "

" I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting. "

" I think serial monogamy says it all. "

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